Jessica C. Brickey, LCSW, IECMH-E ®

Mrs. Brickey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that is endorsed in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, which is a focus on the multiple relationships in the lives of infants and toddlers. Jessica incorporates expressive arts and play in her clinical work to help build trust in the therapeutic relationship and the caregiver-child bond. Mrs. Brickey also assists the caregiver to explore how his or her upbringing and current or past life stressors can impact parenting as well as the child’s development and behaviors. Currently, she is seeing children 6 and under, with or without a neurodivergent diagnosis. She is also able to see infants under 1 with a caregiver to work on any disruptions impacting the child/ caregiver bond.

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Jessica is trained to administer the ADOS-2 and ADI-R for autism diagnostic purposes, specializing in the early childhood population. She is also certified in AutPlay, which is a neurodivergent framework to address mental health needs of children with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, etc. In addition to direct therapy, Jessica can provide reflective supervision for those professionals seeking initial or renewal of an endorsement in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. She can also provide preschool or childcare observations and provide a written report with recommendations following a feedback meeting with the center and caregivers.

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Jessica earned her Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and Bachelor of Science in Elementary and Special Education from State University of New York at Geneseo.